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The Space Frontier Foundation gives annual awards to people, companies and institutions who have made, in the Foundation's view, the greatest contributions that year to opening the frontier.

Categories include Service to the Frontier, Vision to Reality, Vision of the Future and Best Presentation of Space. A special award, The Founder's Award, is given each year to honor a space activist for overall and long-term achievement.

The award, pictured at right, is a polished marble obelisk emerging from rough rock. On the face of the obelisk is the Foundation's logo, the category of the award, and the recipient's name and affiliation. The awards are presented at the Foundation's annual conference each year, during the awards banquet.

2007

VISION TO REALITY Anousheh Ansari

VISION TO REALITY Robert Bigelow

PIONEER OF NEWSPACE David Hannah

BEST PRESENTATION OF SPACE Clark S. LindseyFor HobbySpace

NEWSPACE JOURNALISM Jeff Foust

SERVICE TO THE FRONTIER Rich Pournelle

FOUNDERS' AWARD Gary C. Hudson

2006

VISION TO REALITY Space Adventures

VISION OF THE FUTURE AWARD Joss Whedon
For Serenity/Firefly

SERVICE TO THE FRONTIER Robin Snelson

PIONEER OF NEWSPACE Courtney Stadd

SPACE JOURNALISM Alan Boyle (MSNBC)

FOUNDERS' AWARD Walt Anderson

2005

VISION TO REALITY The Deep Impact Mission

VISION OF THE FUTURE AWARD "Fantastic Four"
For its depiction of a commercial space station

SERVICE TO THE FRONTIER Michael K. Heney

BEST PRESENTATION OF SPACE Mark Cowen, Tom Hanks and IMAX Corporation
For "Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D"

BEST PRESENTATION OF SPACE Paul Allen and The Discovery Channel, in association with Gemini Productions and Antenna Films
For "Black Sky: The Race for Space"

FOUNDERS' AWARD David Gump

2004

VISION TO REALITY Scaled CompositesFor flying the first private human-piloted spaceship into space

SERVICE TO THE FRONTIER Robert Noteboom
For Outstanding Service To The Cause of Opening the Frontier

FOUNDERS' AWARD The X-Prize Foundation

2003

VISION TO REALITY Dr. Pascal Lee and the NASA Haughton-Mars Project Team

VISION OF THE FUTURE AWARD Tim McElyea
For "A Vision of the Future of Space Transportation"

SERVICE TO THE FRONTIER Erin Medlicott
For Outstanding Service To The Cause of Opening the Frontier

2002

VISION TO REALITY XCOR Aerospace and the EZ-Rocket Team

BEST PRESENTATION OF SPACE Apogee Books
For their NASA Mission Report Books as well as other Titles Documenting the Opening of the Frontier

SERVICE TO THE REVOLUTION AWARD Rick N. Tumlinson
For 14 years as President of the Space Frontier Foundation

SERVICE TO THE FRONTIER Brook E. Mantia
For Outstanding Service To The Cause of Opening the Frontier

2001

VISION TO REALITY Dennis Tito
World's First Citizen Space Explorer

VISION TO REALITY Yuri Koptev, General Director, Rosaviakosmos
For Leadership in the cause of Citizen Space Exploration

The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible. Our goals include protecting the Earth's fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. Our purpose is to unleash the power of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System.

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The Frontier Enabling Test

Our definition of a "frontier enabling" technology or policy is one which has as its effect the acceleration of the creation of low cost access to the space frontier for private citizens and companies, enables or accelerates our use of space resources, and/or accelerates the rate at which wealth can be generated in space. In other words, is the project or policy going to provide a return on the national investment, if we define "return" to be the economically sustainable human habitation of space?